Three-quarters of the students at Belize Friends School are absent from class due to the damage Hurricane Earl caused to their homes last month.
Paul Rogers, the global security consultant and professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of laws from Leeds Beckett…
The Quaker Life Network has launched a Quaker Meeting Librarians Cluster. The initiative aims to enable Friends who run their Meeting libraries to do so with confidence.
Bill McKibben, a founder of the campaigning organisation 350.org, spoke about his work on fossil fuel divestment and the fight for climate justice at Friends House in London on 28…
Presentations were given at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham on Saturday 20 August by the four 2016 Eva Koch scholars.
Kendal’s historic Georgian Quaker Meeting House on Stramongate is opening up to the public to celebrate its double centenary.
The Annual gathering of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent was held at Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia from 12 to 14 August.
The Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) has called on Meetings to dispose of wasps humanely. QCA’s Thom Bonneville stressed that wasps are important because they help with…
Friends in Ludlow have contributed twenty-one recipes to a new cookery book, Cooking for our Future.
The Quaker Congo Partnership (QCP) is to provide additional training for participants in its microcredit project.
Friends came together in Jamaica on the weekend of 19-21 August to celebrate the seventy-fifth Yearly Meeting of the Friends Church on the island.
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